Stable composition containing hydrogen peroxid.



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To all whom it may concern:

. UNITE STA TES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX ALFRED QUEISSER, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY, 'ASSIGNOR TO FIRM OF PEARSON & CO. GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER I-IAFTUNG, OF HAMBURG,

GERMANY. I

STABLE COMPOSITION CONTAINING HYDROGEN PEROXID.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 31, 1910. Application filed August 5, '1908. Serial No. 447,124. (Specimens) Be it known that I, MAX ALFRED QuinssER, a subject of. the German Emperor, and. resident of'Hamburg, Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Stable Composition Containing Hydrogen Peroxid, of which the following is a specification.

The property of hydrogen peroxid of decomposing in contact .with other substances iswell known. In consequence of this property it h ts not heretofore been possible to use hydrogen peroxid as an addition to'medica- I, form.

ments, ethereal oils and the like in stable This invention relates to a method of using hydrogen peroxid in stable form as an addition to other substances, medicaments and the like. For this purpose the hydro- T gen peroxid is mixed with materials which not decompose.

have no decomposing effect on the same and which absorb it in such manner that the hydrogen peroxid remains absorbed and does It has already been prososed to use gelatin as a carrier of the hyro en peroxid in admixture with various me icam'ents, &c. The result however was unsuccessful because the hydrogen peroxid is decomposed in the gelatin mass itself,

which is shown by the production of bubbles resulting from the liberated oxygen." A high percentage of hydrogen peroxid stirred in gelatin produces a lasting liquefaction of the hydrogen peroxid as well as the appearance of decomposition. This appears in about eight to fourteen days so that no such preparation can be regarded as durable. Better'results are given by solutions of sugar and albumen, which however are not applicable for all medioaments, .&c.

whereby the li discovered t at burnt Good carriers for keeping hydrogen per oxid have proved to be vegetable substances such. as tragacanth, agar-agar, gum arabic and the like. These substances are used in the form'of mucilage by soaking or steeping them in 'a solution of hydrogen peroxid,- uid is stored up in the mass ecomposed. It has now been gypsum used along with vegetable mucilage is a vehicle for hywithout bein drogen peroxid since the water in which the latter is dissolved combines with the burnt gypsum as water of crystallization and the mass so formed holds mechanically large quantities of the peroxid, a reaction between the gypsum and the hydrogen peroxid being prevented and the siableness of the-hydrogen peroxid at the same time still in creased. Such an addition of gypsum is very useful for example in tooth paste, since the gypsum cleans the teeth and the hydrogen peroxid coming in contact with the saliva and decomposing liberates nascent oxygen which has a bleaching action on the teeth.

The following examples serve as a further elucidation of the invention. I f

1. Skin 0ream.-Tragacanth 3.0 g., a aragar 3.0 g., hydrogen peroxid 100.0 g., oi of roses 3 drops.

2. Tooth aste.Tragacanth 3.0 g., agaragar 3.0 g., l ydrogen eroxid 100.0 g., burnt gypsum 100.0 g., oil 0 peppermint 10 drops.

The ingredients of the com osition are mixed or compounded by grinding or triturating the mixtures in a mortar or by passing the same repeatedly through a mill or the like. The hydrogen peroxid is the customary solution containing not over 30% of hydrogen peroxid.

I claim:

1. The method of making toilet preparations, which comprises mixing a vegetable mucilaginous substance with peroxid of hydro en, adding thereto a substance adapted to c emically combine the water contalning the peroxid, aswater of crystallization, the hydrogen peroxid in excess being mechanically held by the mixture.

2. The method of making toilet preparations, which comprises mixing a vegetable mucilaginous substance with peroxid of hy-- bmes with the gypsum, the hydrogsn1 (pera crystgllino ahrasiv contoining wafer of v Signed at Hamburg this 25th day of July crystallmationa and hydrogen perox1d me- 1908.

chanically hel in the mixture..

4. A composition of matter consisting of v MAX'ALFRED QUEISSER' I 1 5' a'mucilaginous substance, psum, and hy- J Witnesses;

drogen peroxid mechanics y held in the MAx.A.G, LEMOKE,

- mixture. *EBNEST H'. L. MUMMENHOEF. 

